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There wasn't a demand for an educated workforce when the framers wrote the constitution. The industrial revolution changed all that and demanded the government impose mandatory education so the people could get a job in industry. Helping society adapt to new technology is considered providing for the general welfare.
I don't see anyone using violent force on you...at least your typing fingers still seem to work. Taxation and spending is the most important power that congress has.
You seem to be confusing the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. Under the AoC the states failed to voluntarily pay taxes which helped to convince the founders of the constitution that the federal government needed strong taxation authority.
Alexander Hamilton won the day as far as taxation and spending on general welfare goes.....
"With respect to the meaning of “the general welfare” the pages of The Federalist itself disclose a sharp divergence of views between its two principal authors. Hamilton adopted the literal, broad meaning of the clause;533 Madison contended that the powers of taxation and appropriation of the proposed government should be regarded as merely instrumental to its remaining powers, in other words, as little more than a power of self–support.534
From an early date Congress has acted upon the interpretation espoused by Hamilton..."
CRS/LII Annotated Constitution Article I
"... It must embrace a provision for the support of the national civil list; for the payment of the national debts contracted, or that may be contracted; and, in general, for all those matters which will call for disbursements out of the national treasury. The conclusion is, that there must be interwoven, in the frame of the government, a general power of taxation, in one shape or another.
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution. From a deficiency in this particular, one of two evils must ensue; either the people must be subjected to continual plunder, as a substitute for a more eligible mode of supplying the public wants, or the government must sink into a fatal atrophy, and, in a short course of time, perish...."
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“The public necessities must be satisfied; this can only be done by contributions of the whole society. “ - Alexander Hamilton, The Continentalist VI